“What is your name?” “Where are you from?” “How did you end up here?” “Can you feel it?” “Does it hurt?” With these and other questions, the American artist Adam Pendleton’s solo exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum sets up an elaborate call-and-response network that articulates a sense of history as fragmented poetics.

Sleep Faster, We Need the Pillows is a dynamic and immersive site-specific installation by Benjamin Kaplan that draws inspiration from the rich tapestry of modern Jewish life and the enduring traditions of the diaspora. This captivating work skillfully weaves together elements of contemporary art with deep-rooted Jewish cultural motifs.

A special display of the work of artist Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923–2015) celebrates this year’s centennial of the artist’s birth. The exhibition will include Kelly’s work in a wide range of media—including paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints—to showcase his experimentalism over the course of his long career. Works on view will cover six decades of his practice.

Gary Lang uses alcohol resist painting and has developed a technique that uses an acrylic clear medium to stabilize the resist painting. Over the past ten years the paintings he has created with this process have weathered the test of time. He uses this technique for backgrounds, textural areas, and complete works.

Abendroth explores the classical shapes used in ancient Greek and Roman vases and urns with a modern twist of them being expressed in wood and with colors that were not available thousands of years ago.  In addition, Bill’s somewhat “off center” sense of humor is shown in an eclectic display of small sculptures and figures.

Hybrid is a collection of previous and recent designs, illustrations, and other works by Louise McLean Bodenheimer who is faculty in the Department of Art + Design. Bodenheimer considers “hybrid” to be an accurate description of her art practice. "Hybrid is a collection of selected previous and recent designs, and other works that reflect her interests in multiple expressions of imagert.

For the 2023 Teen Museum Studies program, high school participants were guided through a competitive application review process and selected St. Louis-based artist Ruth Reese to present a new exhibition of works at CAM. Reese is a sculptor with over 20 years of experience teaching and creating art.

Las Vegas-based artist Justin Favela will present a new site-specific installation and solo exhibition on the Museum’s Project Wall. Favela creates vibrant large-scale murals and sculptures inspired by art history, community, celebration, pop culture, and his Mexican-Guatemalan upbringing in the US. As a multidisciplinary artist,

New works by Dominic Chambers are featured at his first museum exhibition in his hometown of St. Louis. Chambers creates vibrant paintings that engage art historical models, such as color field painting, gestural abstraction, and surrealism. Interested in how art can function as a vehicle for reconsidering one’s relationship with the world.

Montreal-based artist Hajra Waheed’s first major museum solo exhibition in the US features her multidisciplinary practice exploring the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach and engagement with the world by weaving between the intimate and infinite constellations of the communities of which she is a part.

Drawn from the rich collection of the National Building Arts Center (NBAC), Urban Archaeology brings together salvaged architectural elements from landmark buildings, residential homes, and neighborhood institutions built in St. Louis between 1840 and 1950.

Bold abstraction and intense color are signatures of the New York-based painter Sarah Crowner who brings these elements to the Pulitzer in three new site-specific artworks. Crowner presents a seventy-five-foot-long painting, sewn together from cut sections of canvas in the main gallery of the museum. The painting will be complemented by a red-orange glazed terracotta mural.

Ryan Horvath’s series Birds of America is created from various printmaking methods such as woodcut, engraving and intaglio printing processes. Horvath’s attention to detail and excellent draftsmanship are highlighted in this body of work. Also on view are Horvath’s wood blocks and plates used for printing the series, allowing the viewer see the process.

Arturo Alonzo Sandoval’s vibrant, large scale, interlaced and appliquéd panels are layered with unexpected materials that capture light and movement. Sandoval is a fiber artist and educator known for his ingenious use of recycled industrial packing material, automotive textiles and microfilm.

Alison Ouellette-Kirby and Noah Kirby’s collaborative work features large scale interactive sculptures that involve traditional metal casting, forging and fabrication. The end results are interactive works that encourage viewer participation to activate the work and space. Movement, light and shadow, are integral to their art. The exhibition breaks down the barrier of the traditional “don’t touch the artwork” museum policy.

Pattie Chalmers’ Mudmaid Museum is an exploration of folklore and legends that blurs the lines between myth and reality. Chalmers has created her own museum of catfish-beings, referred to as “Mudmaids,” believed to exist in the Mississippi River in a distant past. This unique concept of a museum within a gallery features artifacts created by Chalmers.

Discover new perspectives on landscape, history, and the possibilities of printmaking in this remarkable exhibition showcasing contemporary Native artists. Experience St. Louis in a new light as a historic Indigenous hub of encounter and exchange, transcending its colonialist title, “Gateway to the West.”

AfroNOW: A Journey through Blackest Space on the Other Side of Time features artwork by Stacey A. Robinson whose multimedia artwork discusses decolonized Black futures and is influenced by science fiction, Black liberation politics, and comic books. Robinson’s artwork is part of the larger cultural movement, Afrofuturism.